Monday, 17 January 2011

We are back in the Indian continent after one month on the Andamans...yesterday we finally could enjoy sleeping in a "normal" room, here in Tiruvannamalai.

Internet in Andamans, where there is, is very slow, and finally here I can share this experience.

After being in Havelock few days we heard a new quite shocking...a young girl was eaten by a crocodile last 28th april 2010, just in the laguna were we had our first bath...24 years old, Lauren Failla, from New Jersey, was snorkeling with her boyfriend in a beautiful laguna where the guests of the exclusive Barefoot Resort are suggesting people to go diving even with their famous elephant Rajan. The only elephant that is swimming under water and you can do it with him for only 9.000 rupies (about 150 €)...

Lauren was snorkeling together with her boyfriend, filming with her camera the bottom of the sea with all the beautiful fish and coral, suddenly she saw something big moving in her direction, she went on filming...nobody made them aware of the danger and when she was realising what it was, was to late...a salt water crocodile bite her...the camera falls by her hands, the boyfriend desperately try to take her from the mouth of the crocodile, but the fight was impare and the animal is swiming away with Lauren...

The guy run back to the Resort, the police is called, they don't believe him, they suspect that he killed the girlfriend and arrest him...fortunately he could say to friends where it was happening and the divers of the Resort after two days found the camera, that registered the attack...the search then started and after one day they founded the body, on the opposite side of the gulf of beach 7th...she was without an arm and without belly. The crocodile was captured after 2 weeks, several people saw him moving from one place of the laguna to another...looking for the body...to catch him, a special team arrived by Port Blair, used a net with inside dogs of the village...He is 4 meters of lenght, salt water crocodiles can arrive to 7 meters, now he is in the zoo of Port Blair...